Ever since Audi started sticking LEDs into their headlights, every carmaker and customizer has thought that LEDs make a car look expensive and classy. Jalopnik readers are to prove this isn't always the case.

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Us human beings recognize cars the same way we recognize people: by their faces. You see headlights as eyes. Audi established that LEDs look distinctive and, more importantly, expensive. Whenever those thin, bright strips come pointing down the road, you think that there's a relatively tasteful luxury car on the way.

The problem is that every other carmaker and every aftermarket brand has jumped on the LED bandwagon with the cheapest, hokiest crap possible. This is the worst of the worst.

5.) LED Trunklids

4.) Range Rover Headlights

Range Rovers are supposed to be toweringly aristocratic. The LEDs make it look expensive. There's a difference and it makes the current-gen four-by-four look awkward. It's like a guy from Downton Abbey wearing a tracksuit.

The original R8 started a trend that, even with all its power, it couldn't dream of stopping.
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2.) Mercedes E-Class 'L'

German carmakers copy each other's fashions harder than a bunch of middle school girls. Clearly, Mercedes saw that Audi had a bunch of LEDs and their E-class needed some to keep up. Then they stuck on this ‘L'.

It is the tackiest, chintziest, sloppiest LED application on a stock car, and it's from a once-proud luxury carmaker. Sad.